115 Quotes by Brendan Behan

Bless you, sister. May all your sons be Bishops.

When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.

I saw a sign that said ‘Drink Canada Dry’. So I did.

There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Other people’s interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don’t respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

What’s a crook, only a businessman without a shop.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish – the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers – the ones that think.

Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.